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Immigration just might be a winning issue for Hillary?
Ventura County Star ^ | DEC 20, 2004 | Rowland Nethaway

Posted on 12/20/2004 7:43:46 AM PST by television is just wrong

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To: Budweiser

...Hillary will not be of help on this issue. She is only taking that stand to further her cause. (SOCIALISM)

"You're absolutely right about that. Besides, I might vote for a goat, but not for a snake like Hitlery :-D"

Exactly why I posted this article. It is important to show her for what she really is. However that does not diminish the fact we need to do something about illegal immigration.


22 posted on 12/20/2004 8:12:40 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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To: Budweiser

I've written countless emails and letters to the president and to congress on this issue...I'm delighted that Hillary is picking up this "ball" and running with it...HOPEFULLY Rove will tell the president he needs to pay attention....if not...

Well border security is more important to me than who is in the whitehouse...its the way the next terrorist attack will source from.


23 posted on 12/20/2004 8:15:06 AM PST by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Budweiser
I just watched El Presidente Jorge Arbusto on the tube, answering an illegal immigration question.

His reply? That people are dying in the desert to get here, that the Border Patrol should only be there to catch "crooks", not "workers", and that they only come to do the jobs Americans won't do.

The President of the United States.

Blaming this country, it's people, for the choices of the people of another country, when they chose to break our laws.

Insulting this country, it's people, by saying that they consider some work beneath them. Like we're all plantation owners, sipping mint juleps on the porch.

Blame America First. The standard line of the Communist Left. Spouted by the self absorbed spawn of the pampered rich.

Did he blame the thugs and criminals that make up Mexico's government? No. He blames us. Says we have to change, not them.

Did he blame the individuals themselves that do these crimes? No. He blames us. Says we have to change, not them.

For all of you idiots on this forum that still worship this deluded little prick, I say Go To Hell. I just watched the President of the United States spit on America.

And I'm sick of it.

24 posted on 12/20/2004 8:30:11 AM PST by Regulator
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To: Halgr; Budweiser; television is just wrong
I hate to be pessimistic on this issue but I see only a lose-lose.

Here's how I see it:

Hillary pretends to be conservative on this issue and rides it to victory. Of course she will never make good on any of her faux-conservative positions. We Lose.

Hillary runs with this issue and loses. Rove and the country club Republicans makes the case that illegal immigration is a loser issue and relegate people calling for enforcement as xenophobes, racists, nationalists, etc. Again we lose.

25 posted on 12/20/2004 8:30:41 AM PST by AreaMan
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To: crazyhorse691
My plan is going perfectly on schedule.
They will eat out of my hands and kiss my feet.
I will become the First Woman President of the United States.

Now, if I create some disgruntled democrats
along the way, who cares.

26 posted on 12/20/2004 8:30:44 AM PST by Slyfox
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To: AreaMan

How true.


27 posted on 12/20/2004 8:34:06 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens.)
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To: Fatalis
We already have such a program, with no legalization of illegal aliens required.

While this *sounds* very good, you are aware that this is only a *voluntary* program that employers *may* use.

29 posted on 12/20/2004 8:46:58 AM PST by txdoda ("Navy Brat")
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To: Regulator
Blame America First. The standard line of the Communist Left. Spouted by the self absorbed spawn of the pampered rich.

Did he blame the thugs and criminals that make up Mexico's government? No. He blames us. Says we have to change, not them.

Did he blame the individuals themselves that do these crimes? No. He blames us. Says we have to change, not them.

Maybe he's confused and thinks that he's now President of Mexico.

Or maybe he thinks none of this stuff about illegal entry, congestion, crime, terrorism, homeland security, destroying teenage and other labor markets, pressure on local budgets, schools, and communities, language Balkanization, Mexican irredentism and so forth is as important as some of his campaign contributors getting their labor costs to the absolute minimum possible with unlimited docile un-unionized and undocumented foreign workers, and letting taxpayers struggle to make up the difference.

He sure talks like that's what he thinks.

30 posted on 12/20/2004 8:49:43 AM PST by Map Kernow ("I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing" ---Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Budweiser

Dittos from Encinitas CA


"Hello Hillary, Hasta Jose"
-- My bumper sticker in 2008


31 posted on 12/20/2004 8:52:33 AM PST by Kluster
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To: txdoda
Read the second link, Dreier is moving to make workplace verification mandatory in the next session.
32 posted on 12/20/2004 8:55:55 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: Budweiser

The RINOOBLs had better get a clue about the electoral time bomb they're ignoring. If the Bush amnesty is passed this year, Hillary could very well win in 2008.

(Yes, amnesty. "Guest worker" translates as "amnistia" in Mexico, and that is where it matters. Each amnistia brings a new tsunami of illegals, awaiting Uncle Sam's next amntistia.)


33 posted on 12/20/2004 8:56:20 AM PST by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: rintense
We've already seen Hillary gain supporters on FR.

Not enough to be a concern. The big danger is in the middle, with voters who pay attention every four years.

The President could avoid Hillary's trap and a big fight within the GOP simply by incorporating aspects of Tom Tancredo's guest worker proposal into an overall immigration reform package. Reports that the White House is looking to McCain and possibly Ted Kennedy to nurture support for legalizing illegal aliens in the Senate are worrisome. It's all upside for Hillary to triangulate against Kennedy and Bush in such a scenario.

34 posted on 12/20/2004 9:02:17 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: Fatalis
Read the second link, Dreier is moving to make workplace verification mandatory in the next session.

LOL......wonder how many years/sessions that will take ???

Obviously if the idiots in DC were serious about catching millions of illegal employers, this would have been mandatory LAST YEAR.

35 posted on 12/20/2004 9:04:14 AM PST by txdoda ("Navy Brat")
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To: television is just wrong
Drier was a real fluzie on this topic til he found religion thanks to John and Ken's radio show here in Los Angeles.

I don't know about that, but Dreier has been very strong recently. He is supporting the Sensenbrenner legislation on drivers licenses for illegal aliens in the next session, and also said that Joe Lieberman's opposition to cracking down on those licenses made him unsuited for DHS Secretary when his name was being floated.

OTH Dreier in the past has expressed support for guest worker legalizations of illegal aliens. It will be interesting to see if he still does.

36 posted on 12/20/2004 9:06:29 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: txdoda
Incrementalism.
37 posted on 12/20/2004 9:07:27 AM PST by Fatalis
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To: television is just wrong

I can't see the Republican base moving to someone like Hillary. I can see her losing a lot of the illegal vote though.


38 posted on 12/20/2004 9:13:58 AM PST by trebb ("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
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To: Regulator
RE: I just watched El Presidente. . . .

Excellent comments and insight!

This President stands up for America better than any in recent memory "over there." It's here that worries me.

39 posted on 12/20/2004 9:18:26 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (MSM Fraudcasters are skid marks on journalism's clean shorts.)
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To: All
Most people will see around.. er, through Hillary.. er, past?

As others have pointed out. We have laws.

I would urge we demand that Congress provide an ironclad guarantee that they'd force the executive branch to enforce any new laws! Better, give ordinary citizens standing, I believe it's called, so we could use the courts to protect Our Nation of Laws.

IMO the problem is the pro-"cheap" labor, anti-nation of laws crowd. The greed-related thinking impaired. Even if they were exempted from business-killing regulations and taxes they'd still hire "cheap" labor.

Waving flags they send Americans off to risk life and limb defending them and theirs. Waving job applications of ILLEGAL aliens-cum-guest workers they send those very same Americans returning from battle off somewhere else to look for work.

The business and private interests who do this are useful idiots.

But why does President Bush do it? The President is truthful when he says it's NOT amnesty.

I sincerely believe as stated above that this is part of globalization. Mirgrant labor (a developing country's economic diaspora) is as much a part of globalization as "free trade" transfer of wealth to developing countries. The mainline of both Parties want it.

40 posted on 12/20/2004 9:38:37 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (MSM Fraudcasters are skid marks on journalism's clean shorts.)
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